Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic
Title
Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic
Description
Japanese Industrialists stay in Willimantic to learn advancements in silk production. Impressed by the Morrison Company's silk production machinery, they purchase $40,000 of machinery to ship back to Japan.
Source
Thomas R. Beardsley, Willimantic Industry and Community: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Textile City (Willimantic, CT: Windham Textile & History Community, 1993), 73.
Date
1888
Contributor
hall_tyler
Collection
Citation
“Japanese Industrialists Visit Willimantic,” History Digitized, accessed October 24, 2024, https://easternct-digitalhistory.com/items/show/804.